Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — Africans Build a Church. [ARTICLE]

Africans Build a Church.

A wonderful object lesson in selfhelp comes from Uganda, where some natives, under a native priest, built a church, 300 of them walking 24 miles to carry back loads on their heads. So anxious are they to help each other that squads of Christians go to other villages to help build, and children support students in training for pupil teachers by making mats and pottery, and growing cotton and coffee